Great!!! Thanks so much for the info!!!! For what little i'm going to use officemac I can get a good deal on the 2004...
You may want to note that if the rumors are true, and OS X 10.7 (coming this summer) drops support for all PowerPC applcations, if you intend to upgrade to OS X 10.7, Office/Word 2004 won't run under OS X 10.7.
toMACsh said:
...But, if I put "rosetta" into Spotlight, it returns nothing. Typical.
Spotlight is designed not to search in a lot of places on your Mac. (Presumably Apple designed Spotlight this way to give less cluttered, more focused results; to keep users out of trouble; and to make searches faster.) Spotlight tends to avoid looking in places on your hard drive where files reside that have to do with system software or with meta data. Spotlight also does not look for invisible files.
If you want to search for everything on your hard drive, I recommend:
EasyFind (free)
Download
EasyFind will search anywhere and everywhere that you tell it to. It
will look for invisible files if you ask it to. It will even search
for the content of files if you ask it to. (But it will be drastically slower than Spotlight for doing the latter because EasyFind does not use a pre-cached index to do searches.) It should have no problem finding Rosetta's files on your hard drive.
chscag said:
Not to put down your suggestion regarding Open Office (after all it's free) but it's definitely clunky and ugly. Not at all elegant for a Mac application.
OpenOffice isn't the most advanced of the half a dozen or so projects that aim to port the open source OpenOffice code for the Macintosh. The most advanced one currently is:
NeoOffice (free)
NeoOffice Home
NeoOffice isn't clunky or ugly. And as you say, it is free, so it is worth a try.
In short order, this will be the most advanced project, because it has more work going into it:
LibreOffice (free)
Home » LibreOffice
Google, Novell and Red Hat are all working on LibreOffice.